Ian's framing of inner work: not becoming something you're not but coming back to who you truly are, the self from before conditioning, trauma and stress piled up.
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- Happiness lives in what you did at eight
Ask adults what makes them happy and most name things they did at eight, before life's accumulated 'crap' hardened them. Childhood interests are a map back to the real self.
It's a remembering process. It's not about becoming something that you're not. It's about coming back to who you truly are.
There is a fear of returning to the self because in some ways it feels like the answer is too easy. It must be hard. I must summit the mountain.